ARCHIVA
AN OPEN SYSTEM

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LIMITED-TIME UPGRADE OFFERS
EXTENDED TO JULY 7, 2009

UPGRADE
(Must have serial number and access code for current version of Archiva)

PRO TO PREMIUM ($39)

STANDARD, BOOKS, OR ARTICLES TO PREMIUM ($59)


FOR EVEN GREATER SAVINGS & TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF ALL THE
ADVANCED NEW ARCHIVA CAPABILITIES

PRO TO PLATINUM ($99)

STANDARD, BOOKS, OR ARTICLES TO PLATINUM ($119)


PREMIUM TO PLATINUM ($79)


OR

ADD NEW MODULE(S) TO OTHER ARCHIVA VERSION

All modules can also be purchased individually. For example, you can add Archiva Bibliography Converter to Archiva Books without purchasing Premium or Platinum. (Be sure enter your access code for your current version of Archiva when ordering.)



Archiva Premium
Offers the Following Major Enhancements to
ARCHIVA STANDARD AND PRO


PEOPLE CURRENTLY USING ARCHIVA STANDARD
Gain First-Time Access to On-Line Library Search from within Ibidem
PEOPLE CURRENTLY USING ARCHIVA PRO
Major Enhancements to Existing On-Line Library Search Capabilities

(Included in both Archiva Books & Archiva Premium)

NOTE: YOU CANNOT UPGRADE EITHER STANDARD OR PRO TO ARCHIVA BOOKS
The only upgrade path is to Archiva Premium, which includes both Books and Articles
(purchasing Archiva Books alone costs more than either upgrade)


  • Search multiple libraries at the same time (in Archiva Pro, you can only search one at a time)
  • Add other libraries that uses the industry-standard Z39.50 protocol (the Libary of Congress and over 500
        university and research libraries are already pre-configured)
  • Last searched and frequently used libraries can be maintained on a list that is easy to access
  • Show synopses of previous searches (number found in each library for each search)




    • PEOPLE CURRENTLY USING EITHER ARCHIVA STANDARD OR ARCHIVA PRO
    A Sophisticated Duplicate-Detection Mechanism for Captured Records

    (Included in all new Archiva modules)


    The updated Archiva includes a sophisticated duplicate-detection mechanism, which is activated when you select the records—either from citations captured on the web, or records retrieved from library searches—you want to append to your permanent database(s):
  • You can specify the criteria used to detect duplicates (five different options, from strict to lax)
  • Each possible duplicate record in the destination database is displayed, in sequence, for you to evaluate     • The fieldnames of the fields that are different are displayed in red
  • You can easily move data in either direction (from the captured record to the existing record & vice versa)
  • You can add the Archiva record either as a new record or as a replacement of the existing record




    • PEOPLE CURRENTLY USING EITHER ARCHIVA STANDARD OR ARCHIVA PRO
    The Opportunity to Participate in the Archiva User Community/Forum

    (Included in all new Archiva modules)


    Users of the updated Archiva can participate in a forum (accessible directly from the Tools, Archiva menu) where you can ask questions, request additional capture formats (either developed by Nota Bene, or by the Archiva user community, as described below), or simply discuss other Archiva issues.

    Based on past experience, we’re confident that this public forum will soon become a favorite web gathering space for users of Archiva. We hope it will expand friendships, and at the same time enable you to get the most out of Archiva.


    PEOPLE CURRENTLY USING EITHER ARCHIVA STANDARD OR ARCHIVA PRO
    The Ability to Customize/Extend Archiva’s Rules

    (Included in all new Archiva modules)


    The new Archiva is an open system—the rules used to capture and parse the data on web pages are open to all users of the new Archiva. You can modify or extend our existing rules, or you can add rules to capture data from new sites, databases, or other sources which we’ve not yet supported.

    We’ve provided a whole range of tools to facilitate learning and use of this open system:

  • A forum (as noted above) where you can ask questions, request new formats, or describe your work
        on writing new rules
  • A documentation wiki (to which all users can contribute if they desire) that describes how the rules work,
        and gives examples
  • A “debugger” that lets you trace through the code, showing the rules, the data on the clipboard (as copied
        from the web), the processing of the rules (line-by-line) as they operate, and the assignment results
        (the data that is parsed to the appropriate Ibidem field)


    • PEOPLE CURRENTLY USING EITHER ARCHIVA STANDARD OR ARCHIVA PRO
    Broader Access to New and Improved Rules

    (Included in all new Archiva modules)


    While we intend to continue to update the rules for the sites currently supported by Archiva Standard and Pro (making adjustments as the encoding on sites change), users of the updated Archiva should be able to draw on a much wider pool of enhancements, since they will be able to utilize new rules written by other Archiva users who want to share their work (as past experience makes us confident that they will) with their fellow Archiva users.

    In addition, because the posting of requests for corrected/new formats will be public (rather than to a private web page), and to a wider community, we hope that we’ll be able (by making better judgments based on NB users’s actual needs, and by pooling resources with users) to provide new and updated formats more expeditiously.


    PEOPLE CURRENTLY USING EITHER ARCHIVA STANDARD OR ARCHIVA PRO
    Special Savings on All the New Archiva Modules
    Archiva Platinum


    In addition to the updated functions of Archiva Articles (earlier versions of whose features are in both Standard and Pro), and the major enhancements in Archiva Books (less comprehensive versions of these features were in Pro, but not Standard), by upgrading to Archiva Premium, you can save money on the all new Archiva modules.

    Two modules extend the ability of Archiva to build structured bibliographic data:

  • Archiva Bibliography Converter—convert formatted bibliographies (in electronic form) into Ibidem
        field-oriented records
  • Archiva ISBN Converter—convert scanned barcodes (or typed or copied ISBN numbers) into Ibidem
        field-oriented records

    A third module extends Archiva in an entirely new direction:

  • Archiva Web Page Text Capture—captures (non-bibliographic) text from web pages, and—after parsing
        the data—saves it to a database, the extended clipboard, and/or a Nota Bene file


    Archiva Web Page Text Capture opens up an entirely new way of managing data you discover on the web. In many ways it’s one of the most exciting of all of the Archiva modules. In the (unsolicited) words of those who have been testing it:

    “Just a quick note -- the ‘web capture’ feature seems to be working very well for NYTimes; also able to capture material from London Review of Books, British Medical Journal, LA Times, BBC News website, The Economist, The Spectator, but material from these sources requires more ‘massaging’, as you indicated it would. Potentially, a very useful tool.”

    “The new version of Archiva seems to be a very good beginning indeed with some important features. The prospect of using Archiva exclusively for this work, with the benefit of its integration with the rest of NB is a delight.”


    As an open, extendable system, the possibilities are virtually limitless.

    “The Web page capture is a useful tool, though ironically, in my case, I've been using it for administrative purposes, and not for research in the normal sense of History research activity.”





    While it is not necessary to upgrade to Premium in order to license these new modules (they can work with Pro, for example), you can save money by doing so:


    Limited Time Offer
    Extended to July 7, 2009

    GET ALL THREE NEW ARCHIVA MODULES FOR ONLY $60 EXTRA
    —a savings of over 60%—
    with an upgrade to Archiva Premium


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